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After waking up from a sorrowful conversation with an older lady, that I had spoken with for years, by now, and not being able to recall her name. After thinking more about her, I coujld not place anywhere we had chanced to meet that was anywhere in my waking world, or at was at least the conclusion I resigned with. So for a second time, in my life, I have stumbled across a parallel history as tactile and meaningful as any when I'm awake. It still gives me chills. The question that remanins is will I see this lady again, will I remember that I am sleeping, if i do? Anyway soon after the shock and realization. I grabbed my tablet and this poem fell out in a heaping splash.

A Calf Among Cattle

Tears streaming down
Rains soft token
Imagine how I was found
To have magic'ly woken
In the streets of
    This rainy town
Peering up above
Knees on the ground
Passed by unseen
Or avoided
Where have I been?
Dreams distorted
The street noises
The smell of pain
    And suffering
mingled voices
Polite and feign
    Time stuttering
Unwilled choices
To keep living
To one day die
Still believing
Above the skies
Whilst all the while
Living lies
No one dies
No one dies
I hear the cries
They've made me wise
We'll do this again
When next we sleep
In the next rain
Our souls to reap
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025


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